Question

I am trying to get my login partial to read the user’s first and last name from my database. Therefore, I am trying to call an action from my layout instead of the view partial.

@If Request.IsAuthenticated Then

      @<text><div class="authBox">Welcome <strong>@User.Identity.Name</strong>!
      </div></text>

Else

I am getting a stack overflow exception on this line in my layout:

@Html.Action("RenderLogOnPartial", "Employee")

Here is the action I am calling:

    ' 
    ' GET: /Employee/RenderLogOnPartial
    Public Function RenderLogOnPartial() As ViewResult

        Return View("_LogOnWithValidationPartial")

    End Function

What can I do to get the first and last name into my view partial? Thanks.

Answer 1

Views will use your layout, which will call your action again, hence the stackoverflow.

Try

Return PartialView("_LogOnWithValidationPartial")